Tie for wire fences.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. CONANT, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK A. GRABNER, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

TIE FOR WIRE FENCES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May '7, 1907.

To a whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. CONANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Adrian, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Tie for I/Yire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ties for wire fences and its object is to provide a very simple form of ti e which can be formed Within suitable dies and which will securely bind a line wire to a stay wire so that neither wire will be capable of moving independently and so as to hold the wires at a fixed angle to each other.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preterred form of the invention.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation of the tie in. position upon a stay and line wire; Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, the stay wires being shown in section; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the tie and stay, the line wire being shown in section.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 is the body of the clip formed of wire bent into U-shape and with its arms 2 and 3 disposed in parallel planes above and below the line wire 4 of the fence. A hook 5 is formed at the free end of the arm 3 while arm 2 is provided with an extension 6 dis posed at right angles to the arms 2 and 3 and terminating in a hook 7 which engages the hook 5. The crown or intermediate portion 8 of body 1 extends back of the line wire 4 while the central portions of the arms 2 and 3 are crimped as shown at 9 so as to pass over the stay Wire 10. The extension 6 is crimped at 11 in a direction opposite to the crimps 9 so as to pass back of the line wire 4. Said line and stay wires are crimped in opposite directions at their points of intersection as shown at 12 so that independent longitudinal movement thereof is prevented. It will be seen that this tie is of very simple and durable construction and when it has once been arranged upon the intersecting portions of two wires in the manner shown and. described it becomes impossible to move the wires independently either in the direction oftheir lengths or to change the angle between them. The hooks 5 and 7 form an efficient means for connecting the ends of the tie and as the ends of these hooks are inturned as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 there is no danger of them catching in objects which may be brought into contact therewith.

hat is claimed is:

In a fence the combination with a stay and a line wire, said wires being crimped in opposite directions at their point of intersection; of a substantially U-shaped tie wire having its arms substantially parallel and crimped in the same direction, one of said arms terminating in a hook, and a crimped extension projecting at right angles from the other arm and terminating in a hook, the two hooks interlock ng, the crimped extension and the crown of the tie extending over one face of the line wire and the crimped arms of the tie extending over the opposite face of the stay Wire.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses:

CHARLES B. CONANT.

\Vitnesses:

STUART MORGAN, ALANsoN B. TREAT. 

